Soil erosion evaluation of Liudaogou catchment in the Loess Plateau during the past 30 years
HUANG Tingting1,2, SHI Yangzi1,2, CAO Qi3, WANG Lijuan4, YANG Yang1,2, LIU Baoyuan2
1. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resources Ecology, Beijing Normal University, 100875, Beijing, China; 2. Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, 100875, Beijing, China; 3. Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, 712100, Yangling, Shaanxi, China; 4. Beijing Ming Tombs Forest Farm, 102200, Beijing, China
Abstract:[Background] The Grain for Green Project has been implemented for approximately 20 years, aiming to alleviate flooding and soil erosion across China. It is required to systematically evaluate its impact on soil erosion of the small catchments in the Loess Plateau of China, which has long been characterized by severe water scarcity and serious soil erosion.[Methods] Field investigation was combined with aerial photographs and remote sensing images to acquire the distributions of various land uses as well as diverse soil and water conservation practices in the Liudaogou catchment in 1990, 1995, 2002, 2010 and 2017. Land use transition matrices were employed to evaluate the spatio-temporal variations of land use during the nearly 30 years from 1990 to 2017, and soil erosion of the small catchment was assessed using the Chinese Soil Loss Equation (CSLE) integrating rainfall erosivity factor (R), soil erodibility factor (K), slope length factor (L), slope steepness factor (S), biological control factor (B), engineering control factor (E) and tillage factor (T). The value of R was acquired using the daily rainfall data of Shenmu, Shaanxi province during 1957-2014, K was obtained from the First National Water Conservancy Census and further calibrated using the runoff plot data, L and S were extracted from the 1:10 000 topographic map, B was estimated by vegetation coverage that derived from remote sensing products, and the values of E and T were assigned according to the related outcome of the First National Water Conservancy Census.[Results] 1) The land use pattern substantially changed during 1990-2017, with the area of dryland persistently decreasing, and the areas of shrubland, rural residential land as well as industrial and mining land continuously increasing. Besides, the land use change apparently accelerated since the local implementation of the Grain for Green Project in 2002. 2) In accordance with land use change, soil erosion generally weakened in the past 30 years, with the annual soil erosion rate decreasing by 74.1%, i.e., from 27.8 t/(hm2·a) in 1990 to 7.2 t/(hm2·a) in 2017. Considering soil erosion intensity classes, the proportion of slight erosion was persistently increasing, whereas, the severe, extremely severe and most severe erosion occupied less and less areas. The area percentages of the latter three classes were only 2.6% in total in 2017. 3) Among the land use types investigated, the industrial and mining land suffered from the most serious erosion, followed by dryland, and the grassland and shrubland possessed the least soil erosion rates.[Conclusions] The results demonstrate the critical role of the Grain for Green Project in inhibiting soil erosion in the Liudaogou catchment, which holds important implications for land use planning and soil and water conservation in the small catchments of the Loess Plateau, and perhaps other arid and semiarid regions.
黄婷婷, 史扬子, 曹琦, 王丽娟, 杨扬, 刘宝元. 黄土高原六道沟小流域近30年来土壤侵蚀变化评价[J]. 中国水土保持科学, 2020, 18(1): 8-17.
HUANG Tingting, SHI Yangzi, CAO Qi, WANG Lijuan, YANG Yang, LIU Baoyuan. Soil erosion evaluation of Liudaogou catchment in the Loess Plateau during the past 30 years. SSWC, 2020, 18(1): 8-17.
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